KIEV, Dec. 5 - Ukraine's gold and foreign currency reserves will total nearly $33 billion at the end of 2007, compared with $31.71 billion at the start of November, National Bank of Ukraine Deputy Chairman Alexander Savchenko predicts.

"Our share of dollars is much smaller than Central and Eastern European countries and the share of other currencies - the euro and the pound, is greater. That is why we will receive a large exchange rate and interest rate profit. Gold and foreign currency reserves will near $33 billion at the end of the year," he said in an interview with the Ekonomicheskie Izvestia newspaper.